Temporary project testing

[Nina]

Hi,

I have created a MadCap Flare project that I want to test before publishing online. My query is which folder does one publish in a real-time scenario? Please tell me if I need to share more details.

[ChoccieMuffin]

When you publish using Flare's Publish, it takes the required files from the Output folder and puts them into your Publish folder.

If you want to do a test, create a "dummy" publish folder, say C:\TEST, and create a destination in your project of C:\TEST, then select for your targets to publish to that location. You can then check whatever you get in C:\TEST to see if it's what you were expecting.

Hope that helps.

[Nina]

Thank you, that suggestion worked perfectly.

[RamonS]

An even better test is to have Flare publish the output to a local web server and then access help through that. Best is a full test system that is a clone of a production system.

[Nina]

Hi RamonS,

I am actually using WAMP to test the my project output and had copied the output folder (MadCap Flare) to www folder (WAMP). I had posted this query to learn which folder is actually published in a real-time scenario to a website? Thanks for your inputs.